In-flight performance and calibration of the Chandra high-resolution camera spectroscopic readout (HRC-S)

Ralph Porter Kraft; John H. Chappell; Almus T. Kenter; Gary R. Meehan; Stephen S. Murray; Martin V. Zombeck; R. Hank Donnelly; Jeremy J. Drake; C. Olivia Johnson; Michael Juda; Daniel Patnaude; Deron O. Pease; Peter W. Ratzlaff; Bradford J. Wargelin; Ping Zhao; Gerald K. Austin; George W. Fraser; James F. Pearson; John Ernest Lees; Adam N. Brunton; Marco Barbera; Alfonso Collura; Salvatore Serio

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18 July 2000 In-flight performance and calibration of the Chandra high-resolution camera spectroscopic readout (HRC-S)

Ralph Porter Kraft, John H. Chappell, Almus T. Kenter, Gary R. Meehan, Stephen S. Murray, Martin V. Zombeck, R. Hank Donnelly, Jeremy J. Drake, C. Olivia Johnson, Michael Juda, Daniel Patnaude, Deron O. Pease, Peter W. Ratzlaff, Bradford J. Wargelin, Ping Zhao, Gerald K. Austin, George W. Fraser, James F. Pearson, John Ernest Lees, Adam N. Brunton, Marco Barbera, Alfonso Collura, Salvatore Serio

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Proceedings Volume 4012, X-Ray Optics, Instruments, and Missions III; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.391586
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2000, Munich, Germany

Abstract

The High Resolution Camera (HRC) is one of two focal plane instruments on the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory which was successfully launched on July 23, 1999. The Chandra X-ray Observatory was designed to perform high resolution spectroscopy and imaging in the X-ray band of 0.07 to 10 keV. The HRC instrument consists of two detectors, HRC-I for imaging and HRC-S for spectroscopy. Each HRC detector consists of a thin aluminized polyimide blocking filter, a chevron pair of microchannel plates and a crossed grid charge readout. The HRC-I is an approximately 100 X 100 mm detector optimized for high resolution imaging and timing, the HRC-S is an approximately 20 X 300 detector optimized to function as the readout for the Low Energy Transmission Grating. In this paper we discuss the in-flight performance of the HRC-S, and present preliminary analysis of flight calibration data and compare it with the results of the ground calibration and pre-flight predictions. In particular we will compare ground data and in-flight data on detector background, quantum efficiency, spatial resolution, pulse height resolution, and point spread response function.

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Ralph Porter Kraft, John H. Chappell, Almus T. Kenter, Gary R. Meehan, Stephen S. Murray, Martin V. Zombeck, R. Hank Donnelly, Jeremy J. Drake, C. Olivia Johnson, Michael Juda, Daniel Patnaude, Deron O. Pease, Peter W. Ratzlaff, Bradford J. Wargelin, Ping Zhao, Gerald K. Austin, George W. Fraser, James F. Pearson, John Ernest Lees, Adam N. Brunton, Marco Barbera, Alfonso Collura, and Salvatore Serio "In-flight performance and calibration of the Chandra high-resolution camera spectroscopic readout (HRC-S)", Proc. SPIE 4012, X-Ray Optics, Instruments, and Missions III, (18 July 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.391586

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